From Babylon have spread the fashion languages of our students, bearer of a positive message: contribute, as far as fashion can do, to grow, confront themselves and make a better life, within the Babylonian complexity of the beginning of this millennium.

Zadig, a young and noble Babylonian born in Voltaire’s tale, represents the illuministic vision of Babylon. He moves along among people from different cultures, observes, isn’t overcome from dullness and what he thinks unjust.

He never imposes his own point of view, he makes a different and personal reading of what he sees. He goes on in his destiny with grace.

We can imagine him elegant, both in his luck and disgrace moments, at the core of One Thousand and One Nights adventures, always ready to get the beauty of nature, objects, people.

He would have been a very good mentor for the students, and he could have never imagined that in the third millennium one of the most renowned fashion brands in the world was called Zadig&Voltaire.

Destiny?

Nicoletta Morozzi
Advisory Leader NABA Fashion Design

Inizio maggio 2015, apertura dell’EXPO: uno degli eventi connessi a questo intenso periodo è stato “Puzzle Me”, un dance work al Teatro dell’Arte di Milano.
Messo in scena dal coreografo Yang Jang e realizzato attraverso la collaborazione NABA e l’Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University di Pechino.
La performance è stata il risultato di un processo educativo che ha coinvolto docenti e studenti del Triennio in Fashion Design e del Triennio in Scenografia di NABA per la realizzazione di costumi e scene.
Beginning of May 2015, opening of EXPO: one of the connected events of this intense period has been “Puzzle Me”, a dance work at Teatro dell’Arte di Milano.
A dance work by the choreographer Yang Jang realized through the collaboration of NABA and the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University of Beijing.
The performance has been the outcome of an integrated educational process with the contribution of faculty and students of NABA BA in Fashion Design and BA in Theatre and Exhibit Design for the creation of costumes and scenes.

More than 20 outfits by students from the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University of Beijing, one of the most prestigious universities in China and with which NABA has collaborated for years, will be showcased on the runway together with NABA student creations during the three-year BA in Fashion Design final fashion show.

The students of the course of Fashion Styling and Communication, visiting Modateca Deanna, have jumped into the thousands of dresses and accessories of the huge archive, and got carried away by enthousiasm have realizaed a series of photo-shootings.

GROWING A-ROUND A SQUAREBuilding new chances for a brighter future: this is the aim of two fashion design schools, NABA (Milan) and ECNU (East China Normal University, Shanghai).
Through educational programs, to share experiences, researches, projects with their students and Faculty.
In march 2015 an event to celebrate the agreement between the two schools has been hold in Shanghai: a workshop where from the square/campuses of NABA and ECNU, students of different nationalities have developed a round experience of fashion design, realizing experimental outfits.
Under the mentorship of the Course Leader Colomba Leddi and the NABA teacher Miao Ran, the students have been engaged in choosing meaningful spots and views in Shanghai.
Then, through prints on silk fabric, the students have realized outfits based on round shapes.
During the fashion show have been presented the outfits of NABA students, and the outfits of the workshop.

SHOOTING ECNU

Sportswear nella storia e l’iconografia di Max Mara è il tema su cui sei studenti hanno lavorato per realizzare un outfit di una personale capsule collection. Ognuno di loro ha seguito un percorso di ricerca e realizzazione in un costante confronto con l’azienda stessa, fino alla presentazione dell’outfit e della ricerca connessa. Tra i progetti è stato selezionato quello di Riccardo Scaburri per un ottimale bilanciamento tra il linguaggio e i valori Max Mara nel tempo e la loro interpretazione attuale. Sportswear in the history and iconography of Max Mara is the theme on which six students have worked to realize an outfit of a personal capsule collection.
Each of them has followed a path of research and realization in a direct relation with the company, up to the final presentation of the outfit and the research related to it.
Among the projects, the one by Riccardo Scaburri has been selected for its optimal balance between the historical Max Mara’s language and values and their present interpretation.